[A] review of the ancient prayers of worship strongly reveals that worship not only contains prayer but is the prayer of the church for the life of the world and for the welfare and salvation of all its inhabitants. God’s story, revealing the two hands of God through which the world is redeemed by Jesus and the Spirit, is the content and prayer of ancient worship.
-Robert E. Webber, Ancient-Future Worship: Proclaiming and Enacting God’s Narrative (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2008), 161.